Quotes About Self-expression

Be yourself. Be confident.

The thing that you have to do is... try to be yourself.

I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.

I have this saying: They either want The Bean or they don't want The Bean. I just am my own thing. It works or it doesn't work.

It just became too much to bear... the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself.

I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

I joke that the beard does 40 percent of the job.

I love my beard.

Like most things in life, the beard always comes first. And it sends out some kind of pheromonal call to the universe that brings the roles appropriate to it.

Obviously, I can't get away from having a disability, but sometimes when you have a beard and long hair, people can't figure it out.

I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique.

I am a thing of beauty.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.

I love to roll out of bed and throw something on. I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

I made a lot of the first album on a laptop in my bedroom after college and after work.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging the audience to turn on you.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

I'm not going to be told that I shouldn't be doing anything, or behaving in any particular way at any age of my life.

I think the biggest learned behavior that I would love to get rid of is that little voice that tells you, 'That's stupid. You shouldn't say that.' And then five seconds later, you hear somebody saying the same thing, and you think, 'Seriously, what is wrong with me?' I think, in particular, a lot of women do it. And that's a problem.